I read a lot of Jeff's blog, but his vlogs put me to sleep. He isn't charismatic and makes the worst jokes. People forget that a visual medium is visual. He channel is an example of great information that is ruined by the visual medium.
There was a time when people would give up their job if they truly believed in what they preached. But you like your work (or money) enough to not make a choice to change
Except this isn't crap and it's taken real effort to get to most of these locations. Holding up an iphone and getting a photo made by Apple just doesn't compared.
Or, the past isn't the present. It was very difficult to get a job in the US in 2008 and now it's easy because it's 2023. (slightly harder for some kinds of tech)
Are you saying professional designers don't care about this stuff?
I'm a developer with front-end skills; I've spent a lot of time around professional designers for 27 years and I usually implement people's style guides.
(I'm also a photographer, which should disqualify me from claiming to be an artist)